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Recognizing Champions for Charity: The Meadows Foundation

The Alliance for Charitable Reform (ACR) will meet with congressional leaders on July 13 to discuss issues affecting the charitable sector, such as the potential effect of tax reform on charitable giving. ACR will bring nonprofit executives from across the country to D.C. for the event entitled “Champions for Charity.” To celebrate these philanthropic “champions,” […]

Recognizing Champions for Charity: Connelly Foundation

The Alliance for Charitable Reform (ACR) will meet with congressional leaders on July 13 to discuss issues affecting the charitable sector, such as the potential effect of tax reform on charitable giving. ACR will bring nonprofit executives from across the country to D.C. for the event entitled “Champions for Charity.” To celebrate these philanthropic “champions,” […]

Recognizing Champions for Charity: James Graham Brown Foundation

The Alliance for Charitable Reform (ACR) will meet with congressional leaders on July 13 to discuss issues affecting the charitable sector, such as the potential effect of tax reform on charitable giving. ACR will bring nonprofit executives from across the country to D.C. for the event entitled “Champions for Charity.” To celebrate these philanthropic “champions,” ACR […]

Congressional Leadership To Meet with ACR

WASHINGTON, D.C.— The Alliance for Charitable Reform (ACR) will meet with congressional leaders on July 13 to discuss issues affecting the charitable sector, such as the potential effect of tax reform on charitable giving. ACR will bring nonprofit executives from across the country to D.C. for the event entitled “Champions for Charity.” “In this year […]

GuideStar Removes “Hate Group” Designation

On Friday, GuideStar announced that for the time being, it would remove annotations from the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) included in the profile information of 46 501c3 charities that designated those organizations as hate groups. This is a decision The Philanthropy Roundtable applauds as these designations are not only highly controversial and strongly disputed, […]

White Paper: Protecting Donor Privacy

Hopefully, you had a chance to read The Philanthropy Roundtable’s most recent issue of Philanthropy magazine where we take a look at donor privacy. In the issue, two of the Roundtable’s staff members, Karl Zinsmeister, vice president of publications, and Sean Parnell, vice president of public policy, delve into the issue of anonymous giving as a pillar of […]

Carnegie Medal of Philanthropy Forum Features Roundtable Vice President Karl Zinsmeister

The Philanthropy Roundtable’s Vice President of Publications Karl Zinsmeister was featured on a panel marking the announcement of the 2017 Carnegie Medal of Philanthropy honorees, which was streamed today on Facebook Live. The forum was entitled A New Landscape of Giving: Power, Policy, and Philanthropy and included Inside Philanthropy founder David Callahan and Boston Globe […]

ACR News 6.16.17 – CHARITY Act Introduced and Highlighting Religious Charitable Giving

>> Federal: Washington Roundup >> Federal: CHARITY Act Introduced >> Federal: Roadmap for Action in June >> Consider This: Religious Charitable Giving >> Top Reads: Americans gave $390 billion to charity last year Washington Roundup Last week, the Chief Tax Counsel for Senate Finance Chairman Orrin Hatch (R-UT) said corporate integration still remains under consideration as part […]

CHARITY Act Introduced in US Senate

WASHINGTON, D.C.— Legislation that would protect and expand charitable giving, particularly for community charities, was introduced in the U.S. Senate today by Sens. John Thune (R-SD), Bob Casey (D-PA), Pat Roberts (R-KS) and Ron Wyden (D-OR).  S. 1343 – the Charities Helping Americans Regularly Throughout the Year Act, or CHARITY Act – includes three provisions […]